Ari, 26 ans, réussit enfin son concours de l’enseignement. Neuf mois plus tard, professeur des écoles stagiaire dans une école maternelle lilloise, il craque nerveusement en pleine séance malgré le soutien constant de Blanche, la directrice. Il se retrouve à l’hôpital et un médecin lui signe un arrêt de travail. Son père, en colère de le voir faillir, le chasse du nid familial qu’il n’a jamais quitté. Fébrile et ébranlé, traversé de visions étranges, Ari erre dans la ville et se lance malgré lui dans une suite de retrouvailles. The script centres on 26-year-old Ari, who finally passes his teaching exam. Nine months later, working as a trainee school teacher in a nursery school in Lille, he suffers a nervous breakdown in the middle of class, despite the support of school director Blanche. He finds himself in hospital and a doctor gives him sick leave. His father, angered by seeing him fail, throws him out of the family home he’d never left. Febrile and shaken, plagued with strange visions, Ari wanders through the city and begins, without meaning to, a series of reunions…

A woman arrives from Africa and moves to the Paris banlieue with her two sons. From this move to the present day, the film will chart the construction and the deconstruction of an ordinary family…

Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she's determined to make a new start and she'll do it with style and panache.